I'm sure threads about this got made back when the last letter from the producer happened but every time I see a character who was established as having brown skin is now light skinned in FFXIV it's depressing and sucks out all my motivation
Like, it was one thing that take Viera and put them in FFXIV and then almost exclusively make every Viera NPC light skinned when the best known Viera character is dark skinned and from a village of dark skinned Viera. Like, that was depressing cuz it showed a bias that legitimately just sucks to see.
But taking an established character from another game, Soul Calibur, and making her skin light now... That's a deliberate act, and it makes it clear that previously focusing almost exclusively on light skinned Viera was a deliberate act.
This game already had problems of colorism, but when you make it clear that the colorism isn't just an unconscious bias but a deliberate choice, that hurts and it sucks.
Honestly, the dev team should apologize and fix this. As it is, it's hard to work up the motivation to touch the new content when I just keep being reminded of this stuff. It's depressing and demotivating.
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Like, it was one thing that take Viera and put them in FFXIV and then almost exclusively make every Viera NPC light skinned when the best known Viera character is dark skinned and from a village of dark skinned Viera. Like, that was depressing cuz it showed a bias that legitimately just sucks to see.
But taking an established character from another game, Soul Calibur, and making her skin light now... That's a deliberate act, and it makes it clear that previously focusing almost exclusively on light skinned Viera was a deliberate act.
This game already had problems of colorism, but when you make it clear that the colorism isn't just an unconscious bias but a deliberate choice, that hurts and it sucks.
Honestly, the dev team should apologize and fix this. As it is, it's hard to work up the motivation to touch the new content when I just keep being reminded of this stuff. It's depressing and demotivating.
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